Dr Katie Peterson University positionResearch Associate DepartmentsHome pagehttps://kapeters.github.io/ (personal home page) Research ThemeInterestsI completed my PhD in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Cambridge under the supervision of Professor Barbara Sahakian and Professor John Pickard. My PhD research aimed to define cognitive processes affected by normal pressure hydrocephalus and the effect of shunt surgery on cognitive and neuropsychiatric symptoms. I worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Cambridge Centre for Frontotemporal Dementia under the supervision of Professor James Rowe and Professor Karalyn Patterson on a project to develop a novel clinical test (the Mini Linguistic State Examination [MLSE]) for classifying primary progressive aphasia. I also used the MLSE to characterise language changes caused by movement disorders (e.g. progressive supranuclear palsy and corticobasal syndrome) and investigated neural correlates of language impairment in dementia. I then joined Dr Tomasz Matys' research group in the Department of Radiology for a study to investigate new MRI methods for imaging dementia. Research Focus
EquipmentBehavioural analysis Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) Neuropsychological testing Collaborators
Associated News ItemsKey publicationsPeterson KA, Jones PS, Patel N, Tsvetanov KA, Ingram R, Cappa SF, Lambon Ralph MA, Patterson K, Garrard P, Rowe JB (2021), “Language disorder in progressive supranuclear palsy and corticobasal syndrome: neural correlates and detection by the MLSE screening tool” Front Aging Neurosci 13, 438 Peterson KA, Patterson K, Rowe JB (2021), “Language impairment in progressive supranuclear palsy and corticobasal syndrome” J Neurol 268: 796-809 Publications2021Matias-Guiu JA, Pytel V, Hernández-Lorenzo L, Patel N, Peterson KA, Matías-Guiu J, Garrard P, Cuetos F (2021), “Spanish version of the Mini-Linguistic State Examination for the diagnosis of primary progressive aphasia” J Alzheimers Dis 83(2): 771-778 2019Peterson KA, Mole TB, Keong NCH, DeVito EE, Savulich G, Pickard JD, Sahakian BJ (2019), “Structural correlates of cognitive impairment in normal pressure hydrocephalus” Acta Neurol Scand 139(3): 305-312 Savulich G, Thorp E, Piercy T, Peterson KA, Pickard JD, Sahakian BJ (2019), “Improvements in Attention Following Cognitive Training With the Novel “Decoder” Game on an iPad” Front Behav Neurosci 13 2016Peterson KA, Housden CR, Killikelly C, DeVito EE, Keong NC, Savulich G, Czosnyka Z, Pickard JD, Sahakian BJ (2016), “Apathy, ventriculomegaly and neurocognitive improvement following shunt surgery in normal pressure hydrocephalus” Brit J Neurosurg 30(1), 38-42 Peterson KA, Savulich G, Jackson D, Killikelly C, Pickard JD, Sahakian BJ (2016), “The effect of shunt surgery on neuropsychological performance in normal pressure hydrocephalus: a systematic review and meta-analysis” J Neurol 263(8): 1669-1677 |